Past Graduate Researchers
Debolina Dutta
Thesis: A Conduct of Conversations: Sex Worker Activists, Legal Academics and Indian Feminist Jurisprudence Supervisors: Shaun McVeigh and Ann Genovese
Josi Khatarina
Thesis: Decentralisation, Law, and the Failure of Palm Oil Licensing Supervisors: Tim Lindsey and Margaret Young
Ana Maria Palacio Valencia
Thesis: Of Blind People, Elephants and the Pacific Alliance Integration: Institutionalist Account and Proposals for Change Supervisor: Tania Voon
Alice Palmer
Thesis: Aesthetics of Image in International Environmental Law Supervisors: Lee Godden and Shaun McVeigh
William Phillips
Thesis: The Structure of Human Rights: A Philosophical Investigation Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth and Dale Smith
Anna Saunders
Thesis: Constitutionalism as Postwar International Law Supervisors: Anne Orford and Hilary Charlesworth
Kay Wilson
Thesis: Mental Health Law: Abolish or Reform? Supervisors: Bernadette McSherry and Dianne Otto
Oishik Sircar
Thesis: Ways of remembering: law, cinema and collective memory in the new India Supervisors: Di Otto and Sundhya Pahuja
Andrea Leiter
Thesis: The making of a legal field - International Investment Law Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Ursula Kriebaum (Vienna)
Sadaf Aziz
Thesis: The State of Knowledge and Knowledges of the State in Pakistan Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
Hailegabriel Gedecho Feyissa
Thesis: The Ethiopian civil code project: reading a ‘landmark’ legal transfer case differently Supervisors: Pip Nicholson and Jennifer Beard
Tayechalem Girma Moges
Thesis: Developing a transformative human rights approach towards the practice of (girl) early marriage in Ethiopia Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Beth Gaze
Marie Aronsson-Storrier
Thesis: Covert operations and the development of international law on the use of force Supervisors: Anne Orford
Meg Brodie
Thesis: Law, change and socialisation: constructing an account of the role of NHRIs in addressing systemic human rights violations Supervisors: Dianne Otto
Madelaine Chiam
Thesis: International Law in Australian Public Debate: 2003, 1965, 1916 Supervisors: Hilary Charlesworth, Ann Genovese and Gerry Simpson
Sara Dehm
Thesis: Ordering human mobility: international law, development, administration Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Anne Orford
Gashahun Lemessa Fura
Thesis: Transnational land acquisitions in sub‐Saharan Africa: competing claims and the role of (international) law Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Jurgen Kurtz
Erin O'Donnell
Thesis: Constructing the aquatic environment as a legal subject: legal rights, market participation, and the power of narrative Supervisors: Lee Godden, Sundhya Pahuja and John Frebairn
Joshua Paine
Thesis: International adjudicatory functions: a comparative study through the lens of environmental cases Supervisors: Anne Orford and Margaret Young
Connal Parsley
Thesis: Jurisprudence without law? Law and the image in Giorgio Agamben Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh
Dudi Rulliadi
Thesis: Public-private partnerships and the transformation of the third world state: the case of Indonesia Supervisors: Anne Orford and Tim Lindsey
Cait Storr
Thesis: Nauru: international status, imperial form, and the histories of international law Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
Marc Trabsky
Thesis: Institutions of the dead: law, office and the coroner Supervisors: Peter Rush and Shaun McVeigh
Martin Clark
Thesis (MPhil): A conceptual history of recognition in international law
Julia Dehm
Thesis: Reconsidering REDD+: Law, life, limits and growth in crisis
Leilani Elliott
Thesis: How do institutions engage with the idea of a human rights-based approach to matters involving children? A case study of UNICEF and the World Bank
Carolyn Graydon
Thesis: Valuing women in Timor Leste: the need to address domestic violence through reforming customary law approaches while improving state justice
Tanya Josev
Thesis: The changing meaning of 'Judicial Activism' in the United States and Australia, 1947-2008
Joseph Kikonyogo
Thesis: Africa and the ailing promise of the Doha development agenda in the WTO negotiations on agriculture
Liz Macpherson
Thesis: Commercial indigenous water rights in Australia law: lessons from Chile
James Munro
Thesis: Emissions trading schemes under international economic law
Sophie Rigney
Thesis: Fairness, the rights of the accused, and procedure in International criminal trials
2015
Maria Elander
Thesis: The figure of the victim in international criminal justice Supervisors: Peter Rush and Dianne Otto
Eve Lester
Thesis: Making migration law: the foreigner, sovereignty & the case of Australia Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
2014
Peter Dirou
Thesis: Food security as social provisioning: insights from the international approach and the Indonesian experience<br>Supervisors: Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh
Angus Frith
Thesis: Getting it right for the future: Aboriginal law, Australian law and native title corporations<br>Supervisor: Lee Godden
Rebecca Goodbourn
Thesis: Making places, making subjects: the representation and experience of Melbourne's laneways<br>Supervisors: Alison Young and Peter Rush
Rebecca Whitehall
Thesis: Hannah Arendt and the turn to life in international law<br>Supervisors: Anne Orford and Anne Genovese
2013
Luis Eslava
Thesis: Local space, global life: the everyday operation of international law and development<br>Supervisors: Anne Orford and Shaun McVeigh
Yoriko Otomo
Thesis: Unconditional life: the time and technics of international law<br>Supervisors: Anne Orford and Shaun McVeigh
James Parker
Thesis: Acoustic jurisprudence: listening to the trial of Simon Bikindi<br>Supervisors: Andrew Kenyon and Shaun McVeigh
2012
Olivia Barr
Thesis: A minor jurisprudence of movement<br>Supervisors: Peter Rush, Shaun McVeigh and Maureen Tehan
Cressida Limon
Thesis: Genes, biotechnologies and legal imaginings: a feminist analysis of intellectual property law<br>Supervisors: Anne Orford and Lee Godden
Walter Rech
Thesis: Enemies of mankind: the doctrine of international law enforcement in Vattel's Driot des gens<br>Supervisors: Anne Orford and Sundhya Pahuja
2011
Samuel Alexander
Thesis: Property beyond growth: toward a politics of voluntary simplicity<br>Supervisors: Lee Godden, Gerry Simpson and Jennifer Beard
Laura Ann Griffin
Thesis: Borderwork: 'illegality', un-bounded labour and the lives of Basotho migrant domestic workers<br>Supervisors: Salim Kassim-Lakha, Jenny Morgan and Jennifer Beard
Olivera Simic
Thesis: Distinguishing between exploitative and non-exploitative peacekeeping sex: the wrongs of 'zero tolerance<br>Supervisors: Dianne Otto and Michelle Foster
2010
Daniel Wanjau Muriu
Thesis: Recognition, redistribution and resistance: the legalisation of the right to health and its potential and limits in Africa<br>Supervisors: Anne Orford and Jennifer Beard
2009
Edward Mussawir
Thesis: Jurisdiction: the expression and representation of law<br>Supervisors: Peter Rush and Anne Orford
John Tobin
Thesis: Children's right to health: seeking clarity in the content of Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child<br>Supervisors: Anne Orford
2007
Amir Hossein Kordvani
Thesis: International law, economic liberalization, and the movement of natural persons<br>Supervisor: Anne Orford
Juliet Rogers
Thesis: Fantasies of "female genital mutilation": flesh, law and freedom through psychoanlysis<br>Supervisor: Peter Rush
2006
Heather Douglas
Thesis: Legal narratives of indigenous existence: crime, law, and history<br>Supervisors: Peter Rush and Lee Godden
Jacqueline Peel
Thesis: International law and the determination of risk: Science, uncertainty and the role of values<br>Supervisors: Anne Orford and Philippe Sands QC
2005
Antonis Tsonis
Thesis: Aporias of sovereignty<br>Supervisor: Peter Rush